“Meenakshi Jain’s Answer To Romila Thapar On Somnath”, Swarajya, Aug 19, 2026.

“Invincible Somnath: A Saga of Millennia. Meenakshi Jain. Aryan Books International. Pages: 219. Price: Rs 795.

Ever since the monopoly of history-writing by the Romila Thapar-led ‘secular’ cabal was ended, there has been a flowering of alternate history rooted in previously overlooked or deliberately misinterpreted ‘facts’. Today many more books are written outside the ideological confines of Marxist theory.

One author who deserves special mention among historians outside the Leftist group is Meenakshi Jain, who has taken it upon herself to shine a torch on those less known aspects of Indian history that Left historians deliberately chose to diminish or suppress.

Over the last decade, her books have focused on India’s ancient temple cities, their destruction under iconoclastic Islamic rule, and reconstruction during British rule and after independence. She has also written extensively on British efforts to demonise and exaggerate the negative aspects of Indian society (like sati), largely with the idea of justifying their own brutal colonialism.

Among these books are Rama and Ayodhya, Vasudeva Krishna and Mathura, Vishwanath Rises and Rises, Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples, The Hindus of Hindustan, Sati, The British Makeover of India, and Raja Bhoja Paramara, among others.

The latest in Jain’s massive oeuvre is Invincible Somnath: A Saga of Millennia. In this book, Jain recounts the geography, history, mythologies, and the repeated destruction of one of Hinduism’s holiest shrines and sacred cities………………………….”

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